"Whoever's standing where I'm standing right now ... is often responsible for not just the United States of America, but 20 other countries that are having big problems, or are falling apart and are gonna be looking for us to do something."

The Pope is easier still. Immediately after Francis insinuated Trump's pledge to build a wall along the US-Mexico border shows that he is not a Christian, pictures of the giant walls surrounding the Vatican began circulating all over social media:

The Pope was set up by a Reuters reporter, who lied to him saying that Trump was calling him nasty names, and threatening things that Trump himself in the past denied. He then tried to get him to condemn Trump and say Catholics couldn't vote for him. The Pope refused and gave a vague answer, since he did not know the truth of the allegations. So the news stories chopped up the Pope's answer, hid the question, filled in the gaps and editors added completely false headlines. There was no error, forced or otherwise, just rank deception. Read the original interview in full rather than the stories.

I read the Pope's full quotations, but not the question they were in response to (full here). I should've done my due diligence, thanks.

Yes, the Reuters reporter was clearly fishing for a statement of condemnation, and Francis didn't give it explicitly. However, he did clearly insinuate that Trump wasn't a Christian (whatever that means, exactly). A trap was set for him and he fell into it.

We shall see. The Pope is the number one religious figure in the world, by a fairly large margin. Who's next? Protestants are stuck with him as a spokesperson on religious matters because they haven't got the equivalent. I'm not Catholic, but that's how I see it. The Pope didn't say, 'not Catholic', he said, 'not Christian.' There is not protestant Pope to set the record straight.

Has this guy ever come down on any other person one God's green Earth as 'not Christian'?

Trump has withstood a lot, but good grief. You can't keep getting nuked from space like that, even if you are Trump. Maybe this revolution just isn't possible.

In any case, conservatives rarely beat the left. The left crushes the right. And then GNON bashes the left on the skull with the baseball bat of reality. That is the natural order.

That is to say, if Trump can't do it, there's always GNON. Not my first choice.

I think the revolution is definitely possible. The question is how bad do things need to get in order for the revolution to begin. The country is deeply divided, not only along political and ideological lines, but also along ethnic and racial lines. The revolution will begin no matter who wins the presidency.

Has this guy ever come down on any other person one God's green Earth as 'not Christian'?

But isn't that what makes the criticism so absurd? Trump is the worst person in the world? Really?

The ancestors of those Protestants who have no corresponding figure to turn to used to refer to the pope as the antichrist.

I hope I get the better of you on this one!

Expeedee,

Right, this doesn't go away even if Trump does. He's not a cause, he's the champion of a cause. Sanders too. Like a Roman general hailed as Caesar by mutinous soldiers, Sanders had a mob pushing him into the presidential race, a mob that didn't want "no" as an answer.

He slightly outperformed the RCP average, which I'll certainly take given the gauntlet he ran through the week leading up to the primary. His opposition is positively apoplectic now, much more so than they were after New Hampshire, so that's good.